{"title":"Loss, Mourning, and the Developmental Process: Thoughts on Jane","authors":"Rex H. McGehee","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2022.2137369","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This is the discussion of the analysis of an adolescent who had traumatically lost her mother as a school-age child. Using the case material presented by Cheryl Collins, the discussion will present the unconscious developmental dilemma posed by loss. Faced with the pain of loss, the process of development may deviate into a painful world of melancholia, nostalgia, and the repeated experiencing of the disappointing and painful object relationships of a closed system. Analysis offers the patient the opportunity to begin the grieving process, introduce new objects, and further the adaptive developmental process of increasingly organized complexity.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"76 1","pages":"74 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2022.2137369","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This is the discussion of the analysis of an adolescent who had traumatically lost her mother as a school-age child. Using the case material presented by Cheryl Collins, the discussion will present the unconscious developmental dilemma posed by loss. Faced with the pain of loss, the process of development may deviate into a painful world of melancholia, nostalgia, and the repeated experiencing of the disappointing and painful object relationships of a closed system. Analysis offers the patient the opportunity to begin the grieving process, introduce new objects, and further the adaptive developmental process of increasingly organized complexity.
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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is recognized as a preeminent source of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Published annually, it focuses on presenting carefully selected and edited representative articles featuring ongoing analytic research as well as clinical and theoretical contributions for use in the treatment of adults and children. Initiated in 1945, under the early leadership of Anna Freud, Kurt and Ruth Eissler, Marianne and Ernst Kris, this series of volumes soon established itself as a leading reference source of study. To look at its contributors is to be confronted with the names of a stellar list of creative, scholarly pioneers who willed a rich heritage of information about the development and disorders of children and their influence on the treatment of adults as well as children. An innovative section, The Child Analyst at Work, periodically provides a forum for dialogue and discussion of clinical process from multiple viewpoints.
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